“Shouldn’t have come”
That’s why Baerbock made a handstand on TV
Updated on 01.06.2025 – 10:44 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Annalena Baerbock was a competitive athlete in her youth. That should have helped her in the recent episode of the “Carolin Kebekus Show”.
Ex-Secretary of State Annalena Baerbock is head-at least for comedian Carolin Kebekus. In their show, the Greens politician got involved in a truth or mandatory game. There, the 44-year-old preferred to have a handstand in her black overall than to answer the undiplomatic question: “Rather just read books by Robert Habeck or never see anything from Robert Habeck again?”
However, the mother of two daughters is not very inexperienced: in her youth she had done trampoline jumping as competitive sports.
Only once did Baerbock choose an answer in the “Carolin Kebekus Show” instead of duty. When asked: “Better eat every day, what Markus Söder eats or drink every day, what Wolfgang Kubicki drinks?” She voted for: “Eat, what Markus Söder eats, but the question is, so to speak, how I look like it.”
For another undefied question, she received an adhesive tattoo with a truck motif on the wrist. Baerbock wanted to redeem further duties with calls to prominent politicians on the show, but ex-business minister Habeck did not decrease, whereupon Kebekus suggested: “We could call Christian Lindner and ask how his parental leave works.”
However, this attempt on Facetime also failed. “Was broken off,” said Kebekus dryly. “Maybe he blocked you.” As an alternative to the unannounced celebrity calls in front of the camera, Baerbock could also have a chocolate mustard toast or Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) could have complimented.
When the comedian then asked the designated president of the United Nations General Assembly to sing “New York, New York” in Playback, Schwant Baerbock: “Oh, my god, I shouldn’t have come.”
In her years as Federal Foreign Minister, she not only stayed away with entertainment shows because she had no time, but also because she was told: “What you can’t do is funny and sing. It doesn’t dare to ever do it at all,” reveals Baerbock.
